Author: Ange K.

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child’s death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. – Ezekiel Emanuel United Health Partners is one of 27 medical clinics registered in Texas[…]

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. – Gwen Moore UHP is committed to serving our less privileged[…]

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. – Julie Bishop At United Health Partners, we believe health is more than just visiting the doctor. That’s why we built empowerment programs to address healthy habits and education around nutrition and[…]

It is the world’s first Ebola epidemic, and it’s spiraling out of control. It’s bad now, and it’s going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now. – Dr. Tom Frieden, the Director[…]

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged,[…]